The fundamental principle of IRCAM is to encourage productive interaction among scientific research, technological developments, and contemporary music production. Since its establishment in 1977, this initiative has provided the foundation for the institute’s activities. One of the major issues is the importance of contributing to the renewal of musical expression through science and technology. Conversely, ...

IRCAM is an internationally recognized research center dedicated to creating new technologies for music. The institute offers a unique experimental environment where composers strive to enlarge their musical experience through the concepts expressed in new technologies.

In parallel to its fundamental missions of research and creation, IRCAM is committed to sharing its knowledge and know-how, its technologies with the general public. Cutting-edge research and diffusion of innovations, an international reference for education and the democratization of artistic practices are the driving forces behind the institute’s educational activities.

At the center of societal and economic concerns combining culture and information technologies, the current research at IRCAM is seen by the international research community as a reference for interdisciplinary projects on the sciences and technologies for sound and music, constantly exposed to society’s new needs and uses.

The fundamental principle of IRCAM is to encourage productive interaction among scientific research, technological developments, and contemporary music production. Since its establishment in 1977, this initiative has provided the foundation for the institute’s activities. One of the major issues is the importance of contributing to the renewal of musical expression through science and technology. Conversely, ...

IRCAM is an internationally recognized research center dedicated to creating new technologies for music. The institute offers a unique experimental environment where composers strive to enlarge their musical experience through the concepts expressed in new technologies.

In parallel to its fundamental missions of research and creation, IRCAM is committed to sharing its knowledge and know-how, its technologies with the general public. Cutting-edge research and diffusion of innovations, an international reference for education and the democratization of artistic practices are the driving forces behind the institute’s educational activities.

At the center of societal and economic concerns combining culture and information technologies, the current research at IRCAM is seen by the international research community as a reference for interdisciplinary projects on the sciences and technologies for sound and music, constantly exposed to society’s new needs and uses.

IRCAM is a partner in the interdisciplinary AIMove postgraduate program focused on creative industries such as music, design, and performances. IRCAM researchers and developers will intervene in the module "Human, Machines and Connected Objects" and in the course "Movement-Based Interactive Systems and Sonification". The UMR STMS Interaction Sound Music Movement team is an expert in this domain with experience gained through the leadership of numerous European and French research projects (Interlude, Legos, CoSiMa).

Students will be invited to take part in the upcoming international conference “MOCO – Movement and Computing” initiated by IRCAM in 2016. This conference is dedicated to human movement, its representations, and digital transformations.

Artificial Intelligence is currently at the center of discussions and debates that go beyond the digital field, because of the changes it will entail. Developing intelligent machines for improving collaboration, living and learning, has not only economic but also social consequences. Companies and Society are facing a real need to find professionals with AI expertise coupled with the use of human movement for the interaction between man and machine. The Post-Master’s Degree AIMove aims at promoting an interdisciplinary AI engagement, in order to meet the industrial challenges of AI applications in relation to the body and movement.

The AIMove program will train:

Experts in movement engineering, prepared to take responsibility in the industry, integrating motioncapturing, machine learning and movement-based interaction;

Project managers able to conceive, implement and take over interactive systems or intelligent workspace projects by enhancing the sensorimotor and cognitive capabilities of the user.

The Post-Master’s Degree AIMove consists of a 6-month course, including an after-school program with workshops, international conferences, a think-tank and a Summer School, implemented with the association GAIIA (Gesture & Artificial Intelligence in Industry and Arts). The curriculum is built around 6 main modules :

AI and societal challenges

Motion capture, modeling and gesture recognition

User Interaction/User Experience (UI/UX)

Humans, machines and connected objects

Movement and European industrial leadership

Interdisciplinary AI engagement

The training is completed by a 6-month mission in a company.

« This unique program brings together the leading European professionals in the sector to train future engineers experts in AI and human movement. The industries concerned are the factory of the future, the automotive industries and the self driving cars, as well as the medical, cultural and creative industries. The expert engineer in motion capture and AI will be able to take on responsible roles in machine learning, collaborative robotics, IoT, innovation management for the industry 4.0, design of movement-based interactive systems based on human movement… » Sotiris Manitsaris is the Director of AIMove and Senior Researcher at the Center for Robotics of MINES ParisTech.

Registrations and recruitment are open until July 15th 2018. Applications are open for candidates with a fiveyear university degree in engineering, computer science, mathematics, automation, electronics or other relevant discipline or four-year university degree together with at least three years of professional experience. AIMove is an English taught program and all applicants must be able to provide evidence of competency in English. The AIMove English language requirements: IELTS: 6.5 overall with at least 6.0 in each category.